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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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